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Get Your Monkeywrenches Ready! Politicians Beg For Climate Change Wake Up Call

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While the finely tailored and pampered leaders of the G8 met in Italy to talk the issue of climate change to death and do nothing tangible about it, activists with a more realistic sense of urgency started to take the necessary action to start cutting greenhouse gases right now. . AP Photo/Greenpeace, Kate Davison).

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Study finds large-scale ramp-up in biofuel crops could result in warming in some tropical regions, cooling in temperate and polar regions

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°C in the Amazon Basin and the eastern part of the Congo Basin. It’s easy to look at a new, cleaner energy source, see how it will directly improve the climate, and stop there without ever considering all the ramifications. Melillo (2013) Climate impacts of a large-scale biofuels expansion, Geophys. Kicklighter, A.

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The EV Transition Explained: How to Meet Sales Targets?

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You cannot change the sources from Congo, China and other places within two to three years.” You cannot change the sources from Congo, China and other places within two to three years.” Further, once a particular EV model reaches 200,000 in US sales , the EV tax credit is phased out. “I The automakers do have a point.

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UN report highlights urgent need to tackle impact of EV battery production boom

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The shift to electric mobility is in line with ongoing efforts to reduce the world’s dependence on fossil fuels, and reduce harmful greenhouse gas emissions responsible for climate change. For example, two-thirds of all cobalt production happens in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).

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2018 Environmental Performance Index: Air quality top public health threat

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India and Bangladesh come in near the bottom of the rankings, with Burundi, Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Nepal rounding out the bottom five. Burundi, Central African Republic, Madagascar, the Bahamas, and Latvia slipped significantly in environmental performance, largely due to sub-par performance on climate change.

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Battery metal price plunge is closing mines and stalling deals – ET Auto

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last year put itself up for sale after a slump in the cobalt price left it struggling to finish key projects in the Democratic Republic of Congo, and London-based Horizonte Minerals Plc scaled back work on its Brazilian nickel mine as it searches for funds to complete construction, and announced an emergency USD 20 million financing late last year.

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Redwood Materials Will Recycle Hawaiian Grid Batteries

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Currently, materials such as nickel, manganese, lithium, and cobalt are sourced from Indonesia, South Africa, Australia, South America, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and elsewhere.

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